Panasonic Holdings Corporation reflects attractive technical aspects that could allow investors to expect a trend reversal over the medium term.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
● Overall, and from a short-term perspective, the company presents an interesting fundamental situation.
Strengths
● Its low valuation, with P/E ratio at 7.78 and 8.6 for the ongoing fiscal year and 2025 respectively, makes the stock pretty attractive with regard to earnings multiples.
● The stock, which is currently worth 2024 to 0.45 times its sales, is clearly overvalued in comparison with peers.
● The company appears to be poorly valued given its net asset value.
● For the last twelve months, analysts have been gradually revising upwards their EPS forecast for the upcoming fiscal year.
● Analysts remain confident with respect to the group's activity and, more often than not, have revised upwards their earnings per share estimates.
● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
● The difference between current prices and the average target price is rather important and implies a significant appreciation potential for the stock.
● The opinion of analysts covering the stock has improved over the past four months.
● Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been strongly revised upwards.
● Historically, the company has been releasing figures that are above expectations.
Weaknesses
● According to forecast, a sluggish sales growth is expected for the next fiscal years.
● The company's profitability before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization characterizes fragile margins.
● The price targets of analysts who cover the stock differ significantly. This implies difficulties in evaluating the company and its business.
Panasonic Holdings Corporation (formerly Panasonic Corporation) specializes in manufacturing and marketing of consumer electronic equipments. Net sales (including intragroup) break down by family of products as follows:
- domestic equipments, appliances and audiovisual equipment (42.5%): lighting devices, photovoltaic devices, wiring devices, health and care devices, furnishing materials, air conditioning and ventilation equipments, air purifiers, refrigerators, air conditioners, washing machines, dryers, vacuum cleaners, irons, microwaves, fans, cooking appliances, dishwashers, TVs, digital cameras, audio and video equipment, fixed telephones, showcases, etc.;
- electronic and electromechanical components (13.2%): relays, switches, power supply systems, industrial motors and sensors, capacitors, coils, resistors, materials for electronic circuits, semiconductors, LCD panels, etc.;
- automotive multimedia equipment and electronic accessories (12.4%);
- avionics, industrial automation, communication and entertainment systems (10.8%): in-flight entertainment and communication systems, electronic component assembly machines, welding equipment, projectors, professional audio-visual systems, computers, tablets, mobile communication systems and equipment, etc.;
- energy storage systems (8.9%): cylindrical lithium-ion batteries, dry batteries, primary/secondary lithium batteries, nickel-metal hydride batteries, lithium-ion batteries, energy storage modules and systems;
- other (12.2%).
Net sales break down geographically as follows: Japan (43.2%), China (13.4%), Asia (14.7%), Americas (18.7%) and Europe (10%).
PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION 
